Is your child a teenager?

Hello Miamilady My daughter left home for half a year ago. But wow, we have had our differensis. IT is the teenagers way of cutting of her mum and become a individual and start to think on her own. Belive me this will end, and become more enjoyable I promise. I never said NO, I put the things she wanted to do in different prespective and let her make her own decissions. Mostely she made the right once on my oppinion that I would have made for her in other cases. Well, I can tell you that it will be far more easier with your son. My son is 16, it is easier to talk to him, He is never shouting and screeming like his sister did. He listends and mostely say ok mum. He had his first firlfriend this summer, but when this girl whent from this and that, i ended it...he did not like this at al, probebly to young for this as he said. The teenager life are not easy, they are suppose to be kids, and grown up at the same time. Not that we as parents say they have, but the community, the school put demands at them today and I think they are to smal to handle them. Thats what we as parents have to deal with and make the differensis between us. I belive you sometimes feel like she come from another planet, well, in these days they do...but they will come back to earht I promise you that. Have a nice day.

I have two older kids, and one that will be stepping into his teens soon. My older son, though not a teenager any more (he's is 21 and doing his final year in engineering) is no better than a teenager, a girl who will soon be 19 (she is the smart, caring and the mature one in the family) and a 11 year old boy who seems far to old for his 11 years. The biggest problem is that I and my wife are not modern enough for the children, especially if we warn them of pitfalls of actions or lack of actions. When they do suffer the consequences of their actions or inactions, somehow or the other we are held responsible for those results too! Oh yes, and we never give them enough money is a constant grouse that we constantly have to hear.

Oh I went thru this with Daughter. She never had a real boyfriend til about 16 then she wasnt allowed to date . But she has slipt off to meet boys after I found out she was doing that she got grounded. and I told her dad all heck broke lose and they didnt talk for a month. Altho she was very leavel headed most of the time boys seemed to turn her head. She married the first time when she was almost 20 and wasnt long before she knew she did the wrong thing but was stubborn and stayed in it 5 years . That was 5 years she dont remeber much for he had her brain washed one time when she tried to get away and was with us he threated to kill us and she went back. We told her we had no fear of this stupid person. Fianlly got her back and she found a great feller that loves her very much. I am telling you this fro you to be prepared for heart ackes along the way and her also you have to watch for the pitfalls of boyfriends and whgat they can talk your girl into. Keep your eyes open and dont let them try to pull the wool over your eyes keep a good watch even when he is in the house never let them go to her bedroom always keep them in site hugs and good luck!

sigh, yes, i also have a 14 year old girl (she started high school today, which makes mom feel old, sigh...) she chats on msn, which we keep an eye on (our computer is in the kitchen which makes anything secret, pretty hard to do...) she talks mostly to school friends...she has a facebook account (which she and i share) and also a myspace one... i guess you are right, these are inevitable...dating i mean but so far, she has had 'friends' but nothing serious as of yet... i guess my biggest issue with her is her attitude, sometimes its pretty stinky...but generally she is pretty good... i have a 10 year old warming up ick!

Once I turned into a teenager I was fine with my mom, but when I got to my later teens my mom and I fought so much and I feel bad for it. I plan on making up for it with buying my mom a brand new computer for christmas. I'm saving up the money for it, so I hope she'll like it.

im 18 yrs old i dnt have a kid but ive seen what can happen to some kids and i think that parents need to b over protective these days, ess of teenage girls. make sure that there home, not to late in the night. watch these myspace accounts, even look at there profiles from time to time, have a parent block thing on the internet if u can try and meet her friends if shes in high school call her guindcee consular or what ever they have th the school and talk to them about your child atleast once every 2 weeks you might seem like a menice but its a great idea! also keep in touch with your childs teachers every few weeks. keep the computer where u can see it, and if she has a cell ask the cell phone provider to send you a print out of her texts messege every month and a list of whose shes calling - ess if she has a myspace. trust me. it might b helpful one day to you. hope that helped!

I have two daughters aged 9 and 5 but fortunately i have not faced any such problems with them yet and hope wont face in the near future too. I do have some problems with my elder daughters studing schedule but these things are manageable and have not been a major concern for me. My daughter does have access to the internet but i have strict control over the usage.

They are not anymore, but when my boys were teenagers, they would stay up all night playing video games, and go out to visit their friends, stay there, give me the phone number so they could phone if they were going someplace else, like another's friend's house However, then they would forget, so we had to do the phone gauntlet thing, trying to find where they were. Luckily there was no myspace accounts then and the computers there were so slow, a tortoise would be able to download faster.

I am a grandmother raising a 13 year old grandson. He is a very good kid and I am happy to say that the problems are minor. Such as making his bed on time., etc. When my daughters were young they gave me more problems than my grandson does.

Well i have a 6 year old daughter but I also have a 14 year old son so I understand exactly where you are coming from! Until my son hit 1q3 he was so easy and I didn't have to worry about anything - boy was that ever the calm before the storm! Ok he is a very good Student - he is at the top of all his classes, has been presented with special awards at prizegiving , heavily involved with and running the eco clu and he is also very helpful and openly affectionate towards me all the time - he would be the first person to jump to my defence in any circumstance and then there is the dark side - the backtalk , the constant whining of but noone understands me and of course the classic I hate you when he is mid tantrum - most of his tantrums are so spectacular that any 3 year old would be very proud to claim as their own! As for your daughter sweets I don't think 14 is too young for her to have a boyfriend - just as long as you talk to her and she knows she can talk to you if she is feeling out of her depth in anyway!

My Boys' not quite a teen yet but, He has a little friend.Every once in a while the parents of both kids will decide to go to a movie or mini-golf or something along those lines and arrange a "DATE" .Completely supervised of course by one or more of the parents in attendance. I think this is the safest way to keep things innocent and no hanky -panky.The relationship remains purely platonic.

My child is not a teenager yet. He is only 3 years old. One day when he is a teenager, then perhaps he will have his own ideas and may not agree with me all the time. At that time I think I need to have more communication with him because it is likely to have a difficult for him at that time. He needs more care when he is a teenager.

I have a 14 year old son and a 15 month old daughter...My son is a good kid helps out alot but we have been going through alot these past few months as a family and he has lashed out in the wrong way by giving us attitude...It isn't easy in this stage of their life their bodies are still changing..hugzzzz

im 18 yrs old i dnt have a kid but ive seen what can happen to some kids and i think that parents need to b over protective these days, ess of teenage girls. make sure that there home, not to late in the night. watch these myspace accounts, even look at there profiles from time to time, have a parent block thing on the internet if u can try and meet her friends if shes in high school call her guindcee consular or what ever they have th the school and talk to them about your child atleast once every 2 weeks you might seem like a menice but its a great idea! also keep in touch with your childs teachers every few weeks. keep the computer where u can see it, and if she has a cell ask the cell phone provider to send you a print out of her texts messege every month and a list of whose shes calling - ess if she has a myspace. trust me. it might b helpful one day to you. hope that helped!